THE CHALLENGE:

Before 2013, all different segments of HP’s printers groups worked in silo and the decisions were made independently. Due to this, there were lot of discrepancies across different printer products even though they came from the same print organization. One of these differences were clearly visible through the printer UI. To bridge these differences and to build clear vison of ‘One UI’ across HP printers, my design team lead a major convergence initiative to unify the UI screen sizes, platforms (printer UI, mobile, software and web) and products. My role was to lead this initiative along with my manager defining the converged UI through creating the design models, establishment of design principles, creating the patterns library,  converged UI workflows, collaborative design process and a great level of partner engagement. This project was a huge success, even R&D took the similar path to cut down their code base and converged them to one single code base. This massive project (Design and R&D) took almost three years to complete and with this the overall operational cost was brought down significantly.

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OBJECTIVE:

To provide ‘One UI’ experience to different user segments of the HP printers (Consumer, SMB and Enterprise) who want a simple solution to manage their digital to printed and printed to digital content.

 

Printer User Interface that will provide seamless and personalized solution to printing and creating digital content from any device without compromising native printer functionality. 

 

ROLE: UI Architect